Download or read book Last Night a DJ Saved My Life written by Bill Brewster and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A riveting look at record spinning from its beginnings to the present day . . . A grander and more fascinating story than one would think.” —Time Out London This is the first comprehensive history of the disc jockey, a cult classic now updated with five new chapters and over a hundred pages of additional material. It’s the definitive account of DJ culture, from the first record played over airwaves to house, hip-hop, techno, and beyond. From the early development of recorded and transmitted sound, DJs have been shaping the way we listen to music and the record industry. This book tracks down the inside story on some of music’s most memorable moments. Focusing on the club DJ, the book gets first-hand accounts of the births of disco, hip-hop, house, and techno. Visiting legendary clubs like the Peppermint Lounge, Cheetah, the Loft, Sound Factory, and Ministry of Sound, and with interviews with legendary DJs, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is a lively and entertaining account of musical history and some of the most legendary parties of the century. “Brewster and Broughton’s ardent history is one of barriers and sonic booms, spanning almost 100 years, including nods to pioneers Christopher Stone, Martin Block, Douglas ‘Jocko’ Henderson, Bob ‘Wolfman Jack’ Smith and Alan ‘Moondog’ Freed.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Don Sherwood written by Laurie Harper and published by Prima Lifestyles. This book was released on 1989 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated.

Download or read book The Record Players written by Bill Brewster and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the co-authors of the classic Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: A fascinating oral history of record spinning told by the groundbreaking DJs themselves. Acclaimed authors and music historians Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton have spent years traveling across the world to interview the revolutionary and outrageous DJs who shaped the last half-century of pop music. The Record Players is the fun and revealing result—a collection of firsthand accounts from the obsessives, the playboys, and the eccentrics that dominated the music scene and contributed to the evolution of DJ culture. In the sixties, radio tastemakers brought their sound to the masses, while early trendsetters birthed the role of the club DJ at temples of hip like the Peppermint Lounge. By the seventies, DJs were changing the course of popular music; and in the eighties, young innovators wore out their cross-faders developing techniques that turned their craft into its own form of music. With discographies, favorite songs, and amazing photos of all the DJs as young firebrands, The Record Players offers an unparalleled music education: from records to synthesizers, from disco to techno, and from influential cliques to arenas packed with thousands of dancing fans.

Download or read book When the Beat Was Born written by Laban Carrick Hill and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc. On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks—the musical interludes between verses—longer for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born. From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, Laban Carrick Hill's book tells how Kool Herc came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world.

Download or read book How to Be a DJ in 10 Easy Lessons written by DJ Booma and published by Walter Foster Jr. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DJing is probably the coolest way to make music, right? Now you can learn how with How to Be a DJ in 10 Easy Lessons! Do you think you have what it takes to be a superstar DJ? Do you daydream about making the hottest mixes behind the turn tables? Well, now is your chance to learn how to be a shredder on the tables with How to Be a DJ in 10 Easy Lessons, a simple guide to DJing! Learn the ins and outs of mixing, scratching, and blending and prepare to play in front of a live audience! With easy-to-follow instructions, colorful graphics, and helpful tips from an experienced professional DJ, this handy book breaks down everything you need to know into 10 simple lessons. How to Be a DJ in 10 Easy Lessons covers everything from equipment and software, to basic music theory and tips on performance, this is the perfect introduction to music mixing for aspiring DJs.

Download or read book Confessions of a Teenage Disc Jockey written by T. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixties were a time of drastic change in the United States. A new generation fed up with much of what they saw in society started a new direction both socially and musically. T. Morgan was there at the beginning and shares his recollections with humor and firsthand knowledge in "Confessions of Teenage Disc Jockey." In 1967 he convinced an FM Philadelphia radio station to play this new exploding genre of music. This book chronicles his very personal journey from the time he was first on the air at age 15 up to the present. These pages are filled with stories that reflect insight into the music, the performers and what went on behind the scenes at various radio stations.

Download or read book Rock the Dancefloor written by Phil Morse and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know how it feels to be the DJ, to share the music you love with other people, to receive the adulation of packed dancefloors night after night, this book will show you exactly what to do to get there. Whether you're brand-new to this, a DJ who wants to finally break out of the bedroom, or you just want to improve your game, the five-step formula in Rock The Dancefloor! will help you to become a truly great DJ. This clear and practical guide will enable you to: Understand modern DJ gear, in order to avoid expensive mistakes Assemble the best music collection, so you can fill any dancefloor Quickly master all the techniques, so your DJ mixes sound amazing Perform like a pro at any type of gig: parties, bars, night clubs... Promote yourself effectively, for more and better paid bookings

Download or read book Love Saves the Day written by Tim Lawrence and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-02 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening with David Mancuso's seminal “Love Saves the Day” Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s—from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell’s Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to its wildfire transmission through America’s suburbs and urban hotspots such as Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, and Miami. Tales of nocturnal journeys, radical music making, and polymorphous sexuality flow through the arteries of Love Saves the Day like hot liquid vinyl. They are interspersed with a detailed examination of the era’s most powerful djs, the venues in which they played, and the records they loved to spin—as well as the labels, musicians, vocalists, producers, remixers, party promoters, journalists, and dance crowds that fueled dance music’s tireless engine. Love Saves the Day includes material from over three hundred original interviews with the scene's most influential players, including David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Tom Moulton, Loleatta Holloway, Giorgio Moroder, Francis Grasso, Frankie Knuckles, and Earl Young. It incorporates more than twenty special dj discographies—listing the favorite records of the most important spinners of the disco decade—and a more general discography cataloging some six hundred releases. Love Saves the Day also contains a unique collection of more than seventy rare photos.

Download or read book You Only Rock Once written by Jerry Blavat and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Blavat's rockin' life story pulses with celebrity names, infamous episodes and "offers readers an insider's view into the golden era of rock and roll and pop music and entertainment" raves Publishers Weekly. The long-awaited autobiography of entertainment icon Jerry Blavat, You Only Rock Once is the wildly entertaining and unfiltered story of the man whose career began at the age of 13 on the TV dance show Bandstand and became a music legend. Lifelong friendships with the likes of Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra, a controversial relationship with Philadelphia Mafia boss Angelo Bruno that resulted in a decade-long FBI investigation, and much more colors this amazing journey from the early 60s through today. Now, some 50 years after his first radio gig, Blavat puts it all in perspective in this uniquely American tale of a "little cockroach kid" borne out of the immigrant experience who lived the American Dream.

Download or read book Guide to Your Career written by Alan B. Bernstein and published by The Princeton Review. This book was released on 2004-04-06 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Career counselor Alan B. Bernstein helps you identify your interests and style by guiding you through the Birkman Career Style Summary.(TM) You will answer a series of questions about your personal preferences and then score yourself to identify your Birkman(TM) colors on a grid. Your Birkman(TM) colors represent your career interests and style-not only what you like to do but also how you like to do it. The Princeton Review's Guide to Your Career features: - Profiles of more than 200 professions, from accountant to zoologist - First-hand insight from professionals - Easy organization so you can find all the careers compatible with your needs and desires - In-depth information on the hottest careers in a twenty-first century economy, from the expected (attorney, carpenter, and dentist) to the unexpected (baseball player, sommelier, and wedding consultant) - Crucial career data, including average salaries and major associations Alan B. Bernstein, C.S.W., P.C., is a psychotherapist with expertise in career development and has consulted on strategic training and development programs at major institutions.

Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1961-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Download or read book Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo written by Oscar Zeta Acosta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-07-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark of contemporary Hispanic-American literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic.

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop written by Justin A. Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.

Download or read book Reading Programs for Young Adults written by Martha Seif Simpson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School and public libraries often provide programs and activities for children in preschool through the sixth grade, but there is little available to young adults. For them, libraries become a place for work—the place to research an assignment or find a book for a report—but the thought of the library as a place for enjoyment is lost. So how do librarians recapture the interest of teenagers? This just might be the answer. Here you will find theme-based units (such as Cartoon Cavalcade, Log On at the Library, Go in Style, Cruising the Mall, Space Shots, Teens on TV, and 44 others) that are designed for young adults. Each includes a display idea, suggestions for local sponsorship of prizes, a program game to encourage participation, 10 theme-related activities, curriculum tie-in activities, sample questions for use in trivia games or scavenger hunts, ideas for activity sheets, a bibliography of related works, and a list of theme-related films. The units are highly flexible, allowing any public or school library to adapt them to their particular needs.

Download or read book Margrave Of The Marshes written by Alexandra Ravenscroft and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through nigh-on forty years of laconic brilliance on Radio 1, a musical taste which defined a culture and his wildly popular Radio 4 show, Home Truths, John Peel reached out to an audience that was as diverse as his record collection. He was a genuinely great Briton, beloved by millions. John's unique voice and sensibility were evident in everything he did, and nowhere is that more true than in these pages. Margrave of the Marshes is the astonishing book John Peel began to write before his untimely death in October 2004, completed by the woman who knew him best, his wife Sheila. It is a unique and intimate portrait of a life, a marriage and a family which is every bit as extraordinary as the man himself - a fitting tribute to a bona fide legend.

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Download or read book How to DVJ written by Charles Kriel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to DVJ is THE manual for the new generation of DJ's incorporating all the modern advances in digital technology- vinyl decks are replace by digital decks, and sound is combined with visual imagery. Covering all the basics of scratch, blending and mixing as well as explaining image manipulation such as wipes, layering and fades the book is set to unleash creativity and take DJ's from the bedroom to Ibiza. The accompanying DVD includes tutorial material from the 'pioneer' of DVJing as well as essential information for connecting DVJX1's to mixers, operation of the system, digital scratch technique and most importantly how to use pre-made video material to make a DVJ-style music video in fifteen minutes.